• Growing Pains: Managing the Explosion

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    July was an intense month. I was gone to Spain on business for 2 weeks (pictures soon). While I was gone, Peter was holding down the fort with a lot of new work, new clients and new team members. Some great successes and some unpleasant lessons. The question at hand: how to manage quick growth? It’s a bit of a balancing act. Our recent conclusion (not an answer because we don’t actually know yet): you …

  • Word of The Day: Permabeta

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    per.ma.beta [pûr'mÉ™-bā'tÉ™] adjective An indefinite state of incompleteness. Often symptomatic of highly humble or insecure engineers or agile development and web 2.0. A state of endless anticipation for advance to a higher level. Usage: “Johny wanted to get to third base with Suzy for years. Realizing his relationship was permabeta, he dumped her for Sally 3.0″

  • Should You Take the Gig?

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    Do you know a good project when you see it? I find that choosing a project is much like dating. You are looking for a project you will enjoy spending time on, that won’t drain all your resources, and will leave you feeling better after the date than you did before it started. When I’m out mixing it up and have my sales hat on though, I tend to chase everything and have to fight …

  • In the Still of the Night

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    The All Night’er is something that all of us have dated at one point or another in our lives. Staying up til’ 3am running on nothing but coffee and the knowledge that any sane person would be sleeping certainly isn’t a rarity in any case. And heck, it’s a little romantic the first time you do it… like the first time you try to stay up all night when you’re a kid. Whimsical, sure, but …

  • Building Loyalty through Success: Talent Vs. Skill

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    I was given some very precious advice from a billionaire the final time we spoke. “Building a business is incredibly simple with the right people. Building a business with the wrong people is the hardest thing in the world.” In “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t”, Jim Collins explains that the companies he studied spent very little time motivating their people once they had the right people on the …

  • The Web is Female

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    I am in Spain on business and launched Google to quickly look up some conference details. Staring back at me was ‘La Web‘. So there you have it, folks. That willey, brilliant collaboration we call the web is in fact a woman. Considering the fact that anything so complicated could function that well, the choice is no surprise. Which makes me wonder, when a new word appears in a language that assigns gender to everything, …

  • Do you have an employee in contractors clothing?

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    The government is amazingly succinct in their vaguery. And of course, make sure you guess right because nothing is more expensive than paying someone as a contractor that the government declares an employee (you get to pay all their back taxes + a fine). The key: if you can control exactly what will be done, when and how it will be done, then the IRS categorizes them as an employee. Our accountant provided us with …

  • Failing Forward (Part I)

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    And Why It Will Happen to You (Maybe) and You Won’t Be Surprised – Part I of II A colleague gave me a stat yesterday, one that we’ve all heard before in one permutation or another and one that (much like the divorce rate) we’ve all pretty much just came to take for granted. Something like, “80% of Small Businesses fail inside of two years.” Now this is a very meaningful (and potentially frightful) stat …

  • A Common Message

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    It seems like all the great books I have read in the last month are saying the same things. That probably annoys those executives looking for the magic bullet, that one thing they have never heard before that could turn everything around. I personally find it both delightful and reassuring.

  • Sitting in the Hot Seat

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    This is off the business topic, but it certainly is a major issue for all of us who work from home, especially Macbook Pro users. You see, I love my new laptop but it has a few particularities. It runs 3x hotter than my PC – so hot, in fact, that I have a hard time working with it on my lap. Normally, it would not be that big a deal. That is until Julie …

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